Tag: PhD in Information Science and Technology

Editor’s note: this article originally appeared on Medium. From June to September, I interned for one of the world’s largest travel startups — Airbnb. As an Experience Research Intern on the Trust Team, I worked on projects central to account integrity for keeping Airbnb accounts safe and secure. In this post, I’ll hash out lasting reasons for… Read the full article…

InfoSpace is wrapping up another year of blogging! To close out the year, we’re celebrating our most popular posts from the second half of the year. Want to know what was popular from the beginning of 2018? Check out our Top 5 Posts from Spring 2018. Without further ado: our top 5 posts from summer… Read the full article…

When we think about innovation, competition, and consumer protection we need to understand that there is no perfect solution. There might be situations where innovation is best achieved by a few large entities. Alternatively a large number of smaller competitors may provide options to consumers. In the past, deciding on this was not as difficult… Read the full article…

Protests, posters, Zuccotti Park, New York City, September 2011 … Occupy Wall Street. Think back to how you first heard about this social movement, which sought to shed light on the issue of economic inequality. Was it in the news? Or was it on social media? What about #BlackLivesMatter? Did you first learn about police… Read the full article…

From self-running airplanes and cars, to robots performing operations, analyzing our every move to learn and improve, life is closer to a science fiction movie than anyone could ever imagine. Such innovation not only inspires initiative, but also spearheads research and analysis in the world of information and technology. Such study is central to the… Read the full article…

Large science data repositories store not only datasets, but also metadata describing the datasets. Datasets in these repositories are often called “big data,” whereas the metadata describing the datasets can be considered as big metadata. Research that uses such big metadata as the data source can be labeled as big metadata analytics. Since 2013 our… Read the full article…

The Society for Neuroscience conference (SfN) is the largest and oldest neuroscience conference in the world, and one of the largest conferences across science. More than 50,000 scientists travel from all over the world to learn the latest research presented in more than 15,000 posters. While many things have changed since the first days of… Read the full article…

Editor’s note: Professor Yang Wang brought his expertise to introduce inclusive privacy and security to the Syracuse University iSchool’s webinar series this spring. iSchool student and InfoSpace blogger Allison Leung asked Prof. Wang a few questions for those who are new to the topic of inclusive privacy. What do all professionals need to know about inclusive privacy… Read the full article…

We’ve put together a list of the best blogs from InfoSpace in 2016! Did your favorite blog make the list? #10 – From Kitchen to 6k Instagram Followers: How the iSchool Helped Build My Passion into a Career At the iSchool we love when students combine their knowledge in tech with whatever they’re passionate about. Read… Read the full article…

The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself. Facebook cofounder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said the company will find ways to address the problem, though he didn’t acknowledge its severity. And without apparent… Read the full article…